Functioning
Article 5
1. The Chair shall be responsible for overseeing the performance of tasks entrusted to the Board and ensuring its proper functioning. The Chair shall convene and chair the meetings of the Board. 2. The Board shall adopt its advice only when at least three members, including the Chair, are participating. The Board shall seek to adopt advice by consensus. If no consensus can be reached, it shall decide by a simple majority of its members present at the meeting including the Chair, abstentions not counting as a vote. In the event of a tie, the Chair shall have the casting vote. 3. The Board shall establish its own Rules of Procedure. 4. The Board shall operate in accordance with its Rules of Procedure. The meetings of the Board shall not be open to the public. The meetings may take the form of physical, online or hybrid meetings. 5. A memorandum of understanding laying down practical modalities regarding the scope and means of cooperation, including in particular the access to relevant information, shall be concluded between the Board and relevant Commission services. The Board shall conclude equivalent working arrangements with the Council. 6. The Chair of the Board may be invited to present their advice and opinions, as well as their annual report, in the meetings of the Commission or of the Council where these are discussed. 7. Travel and subsistence expenses incurred by the Chair and the members shall be reimbursed by the Commission in accordance with the provisions in force within the Commission. Those expenses shall be reimbursed within the limits of the available appropriations allocated under the annual procedure for the allocation of resources.